41
edits
Changes
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
no edit summary
===Appearance & Uniform===
Catachans are known to wear red bandanas that symbolize a blood oath they take when joining a regiment. They sport tattoos and commonly dull their regimental badges with soot and soil so as to not reveal their position.{{Fn|7b}} Disdainful of the acquisition of medals by other regiments, tattoos are used as a way of marking battle honours such as the use of skull emblems to mark five years service, daggers to mark a decade of service {{Fn|16}} and the skull and crosshairs to denote a marksman {{Fn|17}}
A common rite of passage among Jungle Fighters is for junior soldiers to earn their ''"Catachan name,"'' a sobriquet that acknowledges their battle experiences and/or some notable quality of theirs.{{Fn|11}} For example, [[Colonel]] [[Straken]]'s nickname "Iron Hand" comes from the [[bionic]] arm which replaced the one he lost to a [[Miral]] [[Land Shark]]{{Fn|7h}}, while [[Gunnery Sergeant]] "Stonetooth" [[Harker]]'s reputation for toughness is such that he was able to kill a [[Tyranid]] [[Ravener]] by crushing its neck between his biceps, and was rumored to chew glass the way other men chew tobacco (though this latter is probably an exaggeration).{{Fn|7i}}
*{{Endn|14}}: [http://web.archive.org/web/20110211195331/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m70037a_Strategy_cards_1 Strategy Cards] for [[Planetary Empires]] expansion game, card ''Chosen Ground - Minor Stratagem"'', ''(saved archive page, dated February 2011, last accessed 7 October 2015)''
*{{Endn|15}}: http://web.archive.org/web/20120514070430/http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m530559a_LA_Valkyrie.pdf ''(saved archive page, dated May 2012, last accessed 17 Ocotber 2015)''
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Only War: Core Rulebook]] Chapter II
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Straken (Novel)]] by [[Toby Frost]] Chapter 18
===Uncited===
